His forthcoming dissertation project is tentatively entitled, “Darker Matters: Allohistorical Racial Theorizing, Perpetual Black Bodies, and Towards a Black Mecha in the Science Fiction Oeuvre of Steven Barnes,” and seeks to address and unpack the significance of Black bodies within the author’s forays into alternate history, cyberpunk, and dark fantasy. Alexander Brickler is a fifth-year doctoral candidate at Florida State University, where his scholarship focuses broadly on African American literature, but more specifically on Black Science and Speculative Fictions. He has completed a Masters of Applied Social Sciences degree in History from Florida A&M University, and an MA degree in Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, with a thesis focusing on representations of Black masculinities in postwar Japanese literature. His scholarship frequently presents a methodological nexus of Afrofuturism and Afro Asia in order to imagine liberatory futures for people of colour in a global capacity. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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